Tuesday, May 30, 2006
Can you Cure your Hep C?
The most effective medication is the combination of peg-interferon and ribavirin. Treatment with this medication is successful in eradicating HCV in about half of infected patients. This is called a sustained virologic response (SVR).
Current studies suggest that HCV will probably never return in patients with a sustained virologic response unless they are once again exposed to this virus. No vaccine currently exists to prevent infection in an individual that is exposed to HCV. Patients who achieve a SVR following treatment with peg-interferon and ribavirin have an improvement in the degree of liver injury with loss of fibrosis and a return of the liver towards normal.This is called histologic improvement.
Histologic improvement has also been reported to occur in some patients who did not achieve a sustained virologic response following treatment with peginterferon and ribavirin.
Current studies suggest that HCV will probably never return in patients with a sustained virologic response unless they are once again exposed to this virus. No vaccine currently exists to prevent infection in an individual that is exposed to HCV. Patients who achieve a SVR following treatment with peg-interferon and ribavirin have an improvement in the degree of liver injury with loss of fibrosis and a return of the liver towards normal.This is called histologic improvement.
Histologic improvement has also been reported to occur in some patients who did not achieve a sustained virologic response following treatment with peginterferon and ribavirin.
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